Willa Cather Summer Quotations

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.

One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.

Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.